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Hi All,
It's been another great week on the site with reviews from some of my favourite brands. Below are the links to all three of them just in case you managed to miss out on reading them first time around:
Hotel Chocolat Summer Slabs 2011
Ritter Sport Cookies & Cream + Competition
Browne's Hand Made Chocolates Assorted Truffles
The Twitter competition that is currently being run from the Ritter Sport midweek post is going get guns so far and entries have been flooding in. Remember to enter all you have to do is start following @Chocmission, Retweet one of my reviews and then finally correctly send me your answer to which of the three Ritter Sport wrappers I liked best from the review Wednesday - A winner will be announced next Saturday - Best of luck - Full details HERE.
Next week on the site we have more Hotel Chocolat summer chocolates, a long awaited return for 'Bits n Bobs', and lastly whatever I feel like posting on Friday :D
Have great weekends and remember to visit the NEWS PAGE.
JIM
SNACK OF THE WEEK ..... a new part of '7Days of Chocolate Reviews' which will feature any manner of snacking product I have been products munching on in the week
Kcal 190 Fat 5.0g Fat(sats) 2.0g Carbs 33.0g (per pastry)'Chocolate toaster pastries with an ice cream flavoured filling'
My friends at AmericanSoda have just recieved their latest shipping container over from Stateside, and they sent me over another parcel full of American sweets and treats to share with you all for my Snack of the Week feature. During the course of the last 5 days I've once again replaced my usual ultra healthy bran based bowl of Kellogg's cereal with these rather less wholesome Kellogg's Pop Tarts Frosted Ice Creme Sandwich toaster pastries - here's what I made of them.
If you recall my previous reviews of Pop Tarts you will have noticed a common theme of me finding them a none to satisfying breakfast option due to the limited amounts I felt I could consume and any one given time. To my surprise this Ice Cream Sandwich variant made a bit of headway on this issue, and for the first time ever I felt a degree of comfort eating two of the pastries in a sitting. This was mainly due to the usual Pop Tarts throat burning sensation being all but absent here, in comparison to other past reviewed flavours these were noticeably less sharp and poignant in their sugary sweetness - [hew! The outer chocolate pastry was a little on the bland side, but when heated it did deliver a chocolate flavour hit to a decent enough standard. The inner filling was surprisingly less sugary than I expected and had a sweet milkyness that had just a hint of vanilla. All in all I still won't be replacing my usual cereal with these, but as an alternative every now and then I could be convinced to get some of these in the toaster.
7.7 out of 10
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33 comments:
I could really go for some pop tarts right now. All we have in the house are boring old corn flakes though. My parents are so dull when it comes to the cereals they buy.
More Pop Tarts :) You must be loving them at the moment. You went from doing one pop tart review in three years to today doing your second one in a matter of weeks. I'm not a big fan of them myself. I always think they sound better than they taste.
I want to win that ritter comp so badly now.
I've been retweeting your reviews like made Jim, I just hope that my answer of wrapper number 2 is the right one. Its going to be pointless otherwise.
Have a lovely weekend yourself Jim. Your reviews were stupendous again this week hun.
Rxxx
Pop tarts are skanky. Get back to reviewing proper chocolate please.
Hey J
What are you making of all the transfers then chap? You may have noticed Pool were busy this week :) Lol I'm well chuffed with the signing of Charlie Adam, hopefully we can add Stewie Downing before the season starts aswell. Why did Utd give Chris smalling a new deal btw? He only just signed for you!
I would say cracking posts again this week Jim but enough people will no doubt say it to you so you must already know it :) Thanks for your hard work.
Cheers
N
For some reason I felt compelled to look on wikipedia at pop tarts.
The amount of flavours they have made over there rivals that of kit kat in japan. lol take a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tarts
Indianna Jones flavour?
Barbie flavour Wtf are they all about????
Jim with all your friends in high places do you think you could swindle us that discount code you said you could get us for Ameican Soda. If you got us a free shipping code I would be on there faster than you could say Kellogs Pop Tarts Frosted Ice Cream Sandwich (longest name EVERRRRRR)
p.s. I so want some of those apple strudle Pop tarts mmmmm.
Man you do spoil us with these reviews at the weekends jim. You never used to do them did you. I think these shorter ones are brill.
Next time can you make your competitions harder than just a simple 'do this to enter' sort of thing.
It would be far fairer on the people that read your blog religously if you did something where having previous knowledge of the site is advantageous. Any muppet could win this current one.
Does anyone remember the chocolate & Marshamallow PTs that used to be around. Does anywhere sell them anymore? They used to be my favourite ones but they stopped doing them in my tesco a few years ago. The strawberry ones they do now are just yuck.
Thanks so much for giving us all the chance of entering that compeition. It is open worldwide yes? You didn't say there were any restrictions in the post when you wrote about it.
You've done well there finding a flavour or Pop tarts that aren't disgustingly sweet. I didn't think such a thing existed lol.
God its like everything you review I want to buy at the moment. It's not easy being this side of the screen you know Jim.
I would love to be in your position being able to try all these amazing foods. I know they are classified as junk food but I do love it all.
If you are ever in need of a pop tart tasting assitant I gladly offer my services :-P I love the things.
Do you get to pick what you want from AS or do they dictate what they send you? If you are able to influence them can you get them to send you some chips ahoy and teddy grahams please mate.
I want to just check they are selling the proper us version and not the knock nigels they make in Europe.
Jim you have to pick me to win the ritter cookies n creme. I need it so bad. please please please.
Tell me you are putting the Pop Tarts in the toaster right?
You didn't make mention to it in your review lol. If you are eating them raw then there's no wonder you aren't liking them that much. You have to toast them to get the best from them.
I don't mind having to pay the high prices you get with pop tarts because I don't buy them very often.
Every now and then I like to try some of the flavours they get from the US but they aren't anything I buy more than like twice a year. I would get so sick of them if I had to eat them everyday. I rarely eat breakfast anyways.
Pop Tarts are sooooooooooo good. The all time best are the frosted blueberry. Omg what I would do for one of them right now.
You're a sports fan aren't you J? You watching the British GP this weekend? I'm talking formula 1 btw lol
I think I need to get involved with these American soda people.
What are their postage rates like? Are they mentally expensive like most of those companies that sell american stuff.
Are you going to post your thoughts on the thorntons closures Jim?
Didn't you say you were going to write a post about it for the weekend?
If I had the money I would buy every single pop tart flavour out there just to see which was the best. I'm a big fan of them but I've only got around to trying the three flavours from abroad.
I can recommend the blueberry muffin + the chocolate chip flavours but honestly don't waste your time on the vanilla milkshake ones. They are so disgusting, they taste nothing like vanilla.
Thanks for keeping up with the American products, Jim. I always like to get your thoughts on items that are easily available to me.
I think they actually discontinued this variety of pop-tart - I was just looking at the site, and it's gone.
ugh, I'm so hopelessly prejudiced against all pop tarts I'm convinced they're uniformly vile :)
@Terry there was once a JCM comp 'recognize the chocolate from the review photos' that was fun, especially because if you got stuck you could always right click and see what the photos were named ;)
on a different topic I saw these in a shop recently and thought they would make a cute gift for someone looking, you can spell out any name in chocolates
www.beatrix-potter-shop.co.uk/p/1504/New_Beatrix_Potter_Girls_Personalised_Chocolates.htm
ugh, I'm so hopelessly prejudiced against all pop tarts I'm convinced they're uniformly vile :)
@Terry there was once a JCM comp 'recognize the chocolate from the review photos' that was fun, especially because if you got stuck you could always right click and see what the photos were named ;)
on a different topic I saw these in a shop recently and thought they would make a cute gift for someone looking, you can spell out any name in chocolates
www.beatrix-potter-shop.co.uk/p/1504/New_Beatrix_Potter_Girls_Personalised_Chocolates.htm
Jim why have you not featured Cheetos as snack of the week?
If american soda haven't been sending you any you need to have a word with them. They are the best crisps ever imo. I would walk over hot coals to get a few packs of them.
Mmmm those pop tarts sound delish. Have you ever tried them chilled instead of toasted? It works better for some of the flavours, the fruits ones especially so.
Do they still make pop tarts for the UK. I don't ever remember them being made by Kelloggs. I thought they were just an independent manufactured brand. Did they buy them or something?
More Hotel Choc woop woop. I'm looking forward to Monday already to see what it is.
Keep the pop tart reviews coming jim. You got yourself a nice little side project there to the chocolate mission. You aren't just going to stay with the ones with chocolate in are you? There are so many interesting fruit flavours they do you have to try. I want to see the wild grape ones given a test drive.
HI All,
What a lovely weekend it was. I'm already looking forward to the next :D
Thanks for all the kind words about my reviews last week. As ever they were great fun putting together. I enjoy doing them all.
NIGEL - I think the idea was to just tie Smalling down to a longer contract ... not like those things means anything nowadays anyway haha :D
STEVEN - I don't think those character Pop Tarts were flavours, I think they just had decorative prints of them on the Pop Tarts.
JOHN - I can't promise anything on that front but let me check out the possibilities.
TERRY - Noted.
YASMINE - That very flavour is called Smores in the US. WHy not buy yourself a pack and get reacquainted :D
BRIAN - It is indeed open to everyone. Get your entry in chap.
WILL - I do get some say in what they send so just leave a note if there is anything in particular you want to see.
GANESH - I'm trying that out in all different ways chap. From the freezer, in the toaster ... you name it.
CHRIS - I love all sports (bar rugby!!). I thought it was an awesome GP, just a shame Mclaren decided to shoot themselves in the foot .... twice Haha :D
KEV - All their rates can be found on the website. They are very reasonable if you ask me.
LEE - I will be doing this at some point yes.
ASHLEY - Thanks for the heads up on them. I might just try them out specifically now to see what I think of them. They can't be as bas as that surely?
RODZILLA - Discontinued? Damn what a shame. As our resident American expert which flavours would you suggest I review next? Any favourites?
THEA - So important you posted twice eh ;) Lets see if I can get hold of those Beatrix Potter company. Who knows they might want to send over some samples.
RAY - I'll request some next time I get some samples sent through.
SALLY - See above.
MICHAEL - Snack of the Week opens up the possibilities for me trying anything. Just fire away the suggestions and I will see what I can do.
Thanks everyone
JIM
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